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Koneko -
As "马戏团要蛙干嘛？"?
K.
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flameproof -
I will have some time in Shanghai and will try that too. Actually the large book shops are usually
full of kids sitting around a reading. I am sure some will be glad to help.
For the curious I attached one page of TinTin, and two of the short stories.
I wonder what the more advanced readers think about the stories...?
Koneko -
Re: Tin Tin - Not bad.
See page 3, that's actually a 回力标 (boomerang) not 飞碟 (Frisbee)。
K.
flameproof -
A few days ago I suggested this primary school short story book:
新语文读本(小学卷5)
http://www.haoplus.com/1-book/261411.html
When I was in the book shop in Shenzhen I just took it for no real apparent reason. It does
challenge me a lot. I do get to the meaning, still, it's an effort.
I thought the "5" had no big meaning. But actually the books are graded from 1 to 12. So today I
bought also 1, 2, 3 + 4 for a reasonable rmb31 altogether.
Book 1 + 2 still have pinyin above each character. Book 3 is then characters only, but fairly
simple. I think they are quite good for early learners.
Here are books 1-4:
新语文读本(小学卷1) http://www.haoplus.com/1-book/73968.html
新语文读本(小学卷2) http://www.haoplus.com/1-book/298855.html
新语文读本(小学卷3) http://www.haoplus.com/1-book/261355.html
新语文读本(小学卷4) http://www.haoplus.com/1-book/261362.html
What I want to say is, I think it's better to have a look at children's short story books rather
then checking the adult learners corner, which had none in Shenzhen. Or only written text in
combination with lessons. Just my rmb0.01...
flameproof -
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flameproof, maybe you can try this one. The table of content's not listed, but it sounds like a
book of jokes in Chinese intended for beginners who know about 1500 words. The accompanying CD has
audio of the readings.
http://www.lovemandarin.com/book.asp?id=3272
Name：Wit and Humor an Easy Chinese Reading Series: A Simple But Difficult Problem (with CD)
As mentioned before, that book is absolutely excellent! The CD is excellent too. Audio quality is
superb too. On top, the (female) story teller really tells the story with great emotions.
Stories are 400-500 characters long. One thing you can argue whether it's good or bad is the
Pinyin. I prefer to have no pinyin. With pinyin I look automatically mainly at the pinyin. To
avoid that I re-type all stories with Chinese characters only.
One problem I face (and i guess I am not the only one), even I know all characters in a sentence I
very often can not get the meaning. Any suggestion how to increase comprehension? Reading a lot
stuff that ain't too difficult is probably one way.... maybe the only way, or?
flameproof -
A little update on: http://www.lovemandarin.com/book.asp?id=3272
Wit and Humor: An Easy Chinese Reading Series: A Simple But Difficult Problem (with CD)
简易汉语趣味阅读－简单的难题
I re-typed so far the first 10 stories, they use about 4500 characters, and 980 different ones. So
I guess the whole book will have well over 1000 different characters. I will keep you posted once
I typed in all. Means it's not THAT easy to figure out for a beginner.
elina -
I’d like to change our website’s link of http://www.lovemandarin.com/book.asp?id=3272 into the
updating one:
http://9822629.s31.sqnet.cn/book.asp?id=3272
Wit and Humor: An Easy Chinese Reading Series: A Simple But Difficult Problem (with CD)
简易汉语趣味阅读－简单的难题
EDIT: the newest link for the product:
http://www.studychineseculture.com/book.asp?id=3272
gato -
Elaine, you should get your domain name fixed soon. It's bad for business to have a weird domain
name like that.
elina -
I use google to search lovemandarin now, there’re still 1620 results appearing, if we use a new
international domain name from now on, then plus http://9822629.s31.sqnet.cn/, there will be 3
different names directing to our site. I remember to see from somewhere before that if a same site
has several names (don’t know if it includes 3 names or not, it’s the secret of google),
google will think the site is 作弊/ cheating in order to attract 流量/views, then the site
will be punished by google. So I think we’d better not to risk now. When the lovemandarin
disappears totally in google, we will start a new international domain name. I could be wrong
though, thoughts?
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Elaine,
Thanks for the new name for me, it’s nice, I like it
roddy -
The sooner you use the new name the faster the old entries will disappear
I wouldn't worry about Google kicking you out over having too many domain names - they're much
friendlier than Paypal. I'd just get the new name up and running ASAP. We know you're wonderful,
but to the rest of the world it looks a bit unprofessional.
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